Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon, CBEwas a British and American hairstylist, businessman, and philanthropist. He was noted for creating a simple, close-cut geometric hair style called the Bob cut, worn by famous fashion designers like Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, Natasha Kinski and Helen Mirren...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 January 1928
people giving advice
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
mother would-be premonition
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
opportunity architect has-beens
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
girl cutting opportunity
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
soccer sports kids
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
morning night bruises
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
holiday capri destination
Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
people crafts enough
It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
teaching essence numbers
If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.
hair stylist
As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
assuming back-to-work going-back-to-work
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
rebel bits
I was a bit of a rebel.
creativity people
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
thinking would-be elbows
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.